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No. Chemical weathering is to do with acidic rain. This is a type of physical weathering, where it isn't the rainwater's ph, but the fact it freezes in cracks, expands, and prises the rock apart(creating a broken skyline or a scree slope). It occurs in damp areas where water is sometimes, not always below freezing.
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Freeze-thaw is an example of?
chemical weathering
What is another example of freeze-thaw weathering?
physical weathering
What type of weathering involves the decomposition of rock as minerals react with substances such as oxgenwater and acids?
Hydrolisis,freeze-thaw, chemical weathering, wetting and drying, etc
What types of weathering affect chalk?
Freeze- thaw
How do freeze and thaw cycles contribute to both weathering and erosion?
it does
Freeze-thaw is an example of?
chemical weathering
Is freezing and thawing chemical weathering or mechanical?
Freeze/thaw cycles are an example of mechanical weathering of rock.
What are 5 weathering terms?
# Onion skin # Chemical # Abrasion # Mechanical # Freeze/thaw
What is another example of freeze-thaw weathering?
physical weathering
Freeze-thaw is an example of this?
physical weathering
What is the natural process that causes rock to breakdown?
Weathering from mechanical and chemical means is the process that causes rocks to become smaller and smaller; wind, rain, the sun, the freeze/thaw cycle, moving glaciers, chemical reactions, and gravity are some of the causes of weathering.
What are three typed of chemical weathering?
Chemical(acid in rainwater dissolving limestone), biological (work of animals and plants) and physical (freeze thaw)
What type of weathering involves the decomposition of rock as minerals react with substances such as oxgenwater and acids?
Hydrolisis,freeze-thaw, chemical weathering, wetting and drying, etc
What types of weathering affect chalk?
Freeze- thaw
What are the three weather types which can erode rocks?
1) Physical weathering can be split into 2 subgroups-Freeze Thaw and Onion Skin! 2) Chemical Weathering! 3) Biological Weathering!
Why is freeze thaw weathering absoloutely vital if a glacier is going to be able to erode its valley?
Its to do with how it is able to form the glacier. There is a cylce where the ice can only cycle round and round if freeze thaw weathering is taking place, meaning that a glacier can erode its valley. The process of freeze thaw weathering erodes the valley.
How does freezethaw effect rocks?
Freeze/thaw cycles expand existing fissures in existing rock by the expansion caused by ice crystal formation. This leads to further erosion of the rock by freeze/thaw and chemical weathering from rainwater.
